technology is a powerful tool for driving productivity and quality, in schooling as elsewhere; the problem is not with the technology, but with how we've used it.
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iPad Pro frozen after a recharge? iOS 9.2 may fix the problem | ZDNet - 7 views
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"Apple's support document for the issue doesn't exactly inspire confidence but the company says the latest software update may bring stability to the iPad Pro after a recharge."
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"Apple's support document for the issue doesn't exactly inspire confidence but the company says the latest software update may bring stability to the iPad Pro after a recharge."
Leaky batteries: How to prevent it happening, and what to do if it happens | ZDNet - 21 views
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"What to do if your batteries leak out into a device of yours, and how to prevent it happening in the first place."
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"What to do if your batteries leak out into a device of yours, and how to prevent it happening in the first place."
It's time to stop hating Google Glass - 26 views
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"In the nearly two years since Google began testing its augmented-reality eyewear, public reaction has progressed from "that's amazing" to "those look stupid" to "if you wear them, you deserve to be physically assaulted." Google always said people would need some time to adjust to the concept of smart glasses, but this probably isn't the evolution the company had in mind. "
First boot with the Raspberry Pi | How To - CNET - 49 views
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Clear introduction to the raspberry pi computer
Tom's Hardware: Hardware News, Tests and Reviews - 10 views
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For all things in computer hardware
Uruguay's One Laptop Per Child program: Impact and numbers - The Next Web - 18 views
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Interesting how OLPC may have an important impact in a country's wellbeing and creative workforce. I do believe in such programs.
Hack the City at Berlin Fablab & Betahaus - Hackidemia - 18 views
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What to do on a maker-workshop? Here some ideas for organizers. Make music with Makey Makey CNC cut marble track Program with Arduino Illustrate your dreams Build your own microscope and test the Berlin Water Quality A video game about the city's future development Grow roots and wings with Toywheel Furniture design with a laser cutter Dancing drones (a Dronenschwarm through a Web browser program) Robots upcycled A video game about the city's future development Kids have a dream Grow roots and wings with Toywheel
Amplify Tablet for K-12 Education - 4 views
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Amazing tablet for education - making digital learning & use of curated resources/tools an integral part of the device. Pricing currently @$299/device plus $99 annual fee. Great management/deployment capabilities. Definitely worth looking at.
Death of the IWB? | Australian Teacher Magazine - No.1 national education sector public... - 84 views
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"IT'S been over a year now since I removed an interactive whiteboard (IWB) from a classroom wall for the first time. Yes, you read that right: removed. And not to put another one up. In fact, what went in its place was a good old-fashioned non-interactive whiteboard - the same sort we tore down just two years earlier."
High Tech- Low Budget Technology Options For The Music Classroom - MusicEdMagic.com - 78 views
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A large and growing list of free or low cost software and hardware alternatives that music educators can use in their classrooms instead of the high priced commercial stuff. -
Huge compilation of links to technology for music teachers!
Technology as "Hamburger Helper" - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week - 32 views
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regard technology as the means to the end you'd like to achieve, rather than an end in itself
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99 percent of the time, the biggest impact of technology is optimizing familiar tasks and routines--freeing up talent, time, and dollars for better uses
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"Technology can be a powerful lever for rethinking schools and systems. But it's the rethinking that matters, not the technology. Technology provides tools to help solve problems smarter, deliver knowledge, support students, extend and deepen instruction, and refashion cost structures. Unfortunately, too many educators, industry shills, and technology enthusiasts seem to imagine that the technology itself will be a difference maker."
The "Thin" Access Point Approach - 60 views
For the smartwatch. telling the time is the easy part - 40 views
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'I've been trying out some of the new watches that display caller IDs, text messages, Twitter and news feeds, and the weather, too - all beamed from a nearby companion smartphone. The watches are intended for those times when it is inconvenient to pull a smartphone out of a backpack or a pocket to check messages. Instead, you just check your quietly vibrating wristwatch.'
There Are No Technology Shortcuts to Good Education « Educational Technology ... - 73 views
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“At its best, the fascination with ICT as a solution distracts from the real issues. At its worst, ICT is suggested as substitute to solving the real problems, for example, ‘why bother about teachers, when ICT can be the teacher’. This perspective is lethal.”
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some uses of computers in education can be justified, although with the ever-applicable caution that while technology can augment good schools, it hurts poor schools.
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Though children are naturally curious, they nevertheless require ongoing guidance and encouragement to persevere in the ascent. Caring supervision from human teachers, parents, and mentors is the only known way of generating motivation for the hours of a school day
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There are no technology shortcuts to good education. For primary and secondary schools that are underperforming or limited in resources, efforts to improve education should focus almost exclusively on better teachers and stronger administrations. Information technology, if used at all, should be targeted for certain, specific uses or limited to well-funded schools whose fundamentals are not in question.
Pop Chart Lab - The Insanely Great History of Apple - 160 views
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An infographic showing every computer released by Apple in the last thirty years, from the original Mac through the MacBook Air. Products are sorted according to type, including the connections between various form factors which have arisen as Apple has invented--and reinvented.
2aChromebooks for Education Overview webinar 7-19 2c 0f - 4 views
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Anyone interested in Chromebooks might want to take the 60 minutes to get a nice overview of Chromebooks in education. Presented by Google and includes sharing by a teacher who piloted them in his classroom.
12 Alternative Cameras to the Flip - TechLearning.com - 94 views
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Greta list of 12 Flip type cameras with detailed lists of specs, uses, and cost. From Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff
Apple - Education - Recycling - 53 views
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must recycle at least 25 items + pack contents for shipping; must register by September 2, 2011
